My Wayne Co TN REAVES / REEVES Folks
The REAVES AND REEVES listed below buried at Grimes-Schull Cemetery are my family.
My REAVES / REEVES Family from Wayne Co TN including my great grandparents Jasper REAVES andSenath Martha NEWBORNREAVES and three of their sons, one of whom has his name spelled as REEVES on his headstone when the others are all clearly REAVES on their headrocks:
Harvey Franklin REAVES who died in Kansas;
Elijah S. REAVES said to have never married;
Alfred Bundy REEVES
Harvey Franklin Reaves, listed above, was married to Lucille SCHULL IN 1911.Bundy Reaves, also mentioned above, died three weeks after marriage to Beulah PARTER on 12 Nov 1899.
The above were my grandfather's, John Ben/Benjamin REAVES, parents and brothers.John Ben and his wife, Mura Alice GRAHAM REAVES,are buried at Rushing Creek at Decaturville, Decatur Co TN.Linda Stanfill McKee
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Transcription that follows is from tngenweb.org
Cemeteries In The Eagle Creek Quadrangle
Wayne County, Tennessee
Grimes - Shull Cemetery
LOCATION: On top of the hill, due south of Philadelphia Church on Hardin Creek, and east side of Mill Creek. Old cemetery in bad condition.
BUTLER, Raymond A., 28 Sep 1908 - 2 Feb 1913, son of P.A. & M.I.
BUTLER, Tarie E., 29 Mar 1906 - 11 Sep 1913
BUTLER, Emer A., 11 Apr 1871 - 14 Nov 1912
CASTEEL, J.A., 7 Sep 1848 - 2 Jan 1920
CASTEEL, Mary E., 7 Nov 1851 - 22 Mar 1926
ELLISON, Ercell, 21 Jun 1893 - 10 Jul 1894, son of T.J. & L.M.
G(RIMES??), E.E., 6 Oct 1882?? stone buried and information difficult to read.
G(RIMES??), I.B. ?? (stone marked I.B.G.)
GRIMES, Mrs. E.J., 8 Oct 1823 - 13 Aug 1898
GRIMES, Freeman, 19 Oct 1925 - 5 Apr 1926
RAY, Emily N., 12 Sep 1859 - 4 Mar 1895, wife of F.C.
REAVES, S.M., 18 Sep 1847 - 17 Apr 1922
REAVES, J.R., 15 Sep 1843 - 1 Apr 1910
REAVES, Harvey Franklin, 29 Jan 1885 - 8 Aug 1946
REAVES, Elijah S., 24 Sep 1879 - 3 Jun 1949
REEVES, A.B., 10 Feb 1872 - 8 Dec 1898
ROACH, Martha J., 27 Nov 1828 - 6 Nov 1906
RUTLEDGE, Ella Brown, 5 Aug 1872 - 18 Feb 1943
RUTLEDGE, Grace Cole, 24 Feb 1907 - 14 Sep 1927
RUTLEDGE, Samuel J., 10 Nov 1864 - 17 May 1915
SHULL, A.F., 27 Apr 1863 - 19 Apr 1956, mother, wife of A.J.
SHULL, A.J., 5 Mar 1856 - 3 Jan 1926, father
SHULL, Helmon, 28 Mar 1897 - 28 Aug 1919
SHULL, Don, 17 Jun 1894 - 13 Dec 1911, son of A.J. & Ada
SHULL, Craig, 27 Apr 1901 - 29 May 1941, dau. of A.J. & Ada
SIMS, infant, 20 Jan 1915 - 30 Jan 1915, son of Lester & Lela
STOWE, Joe L., 12 Jun 1883 - 7 Jan 1904
WEBSTER, Joseph, 16 Nov 1839 - 24 Dec 1911
WEBSTER, Cynthia Ann, 6 Jul 1842 - 18 Dec 1905, wife of Joseph
From an earlier enumeration --
DAVIDSON, Mattie Lucille, 1 Nov 1911 - 15 Jul 1916, dau. of Alf & Mollie
OLIVE, John S., 1853-1904
end of transcript fromtngenweb.org
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The three DAUGHTERS of myJasper and Senath MarthaREAVES GRANDPARENTSwere:
Ada B. Reaves who married Henry ALLEY and lived around Jonesboro Arkansas.
Minnie L. Reaves who married Lee Anderson GRAHAM (Jane Graham Craig's folks) who spent their life in Wayne Co TN.
Annie Reaves whomarried Joe CHAMBERS or HALL and lived near St Petersburg Florida.
(We have some records of a daughter, Beulah Reaves, who married Frank JOYCE or Claude PICKENS but the old folks at that time (before genealogy) couldn't agree on exactly where she belonged.)